In March 2018, Marco Godinho conducted two workshops, one with a 3e1 class at the Collège Champollion and another with a group of (the art critic) Patricia Brignonne’s students at the ESAD Grenoble-Valence. These two workshops are a part of the long-term project THE WALKING ACADEMY 2018!

Godinho involved the students in reactivating his work Horizon Retrouvé [Horizon Regained] according to the following protocol:

“I am proposing an idea that can be carried out by a group of people who may not know one another and who will complete a group walk across a city. The participants may walk singly or in small groups, or all together. The goal is to walk, to submit to the simple act of perambulation in search of traces left behind by others, and to collaborate in a single experience. The traces will include pieces of string, rope, shoelaces … dropped by those passing through. The walk may take several hours, several days, or several months. The group sets their own timeline to assemble what I call a horizon regained. Once the walk is completed, the pieces of string, rope, shoelaces, etc. … are all tied together.”

In his second workshop, Marco Gindho prolonged that reflection with the ESAD Grenoble-Valence students by inviting them to take a look at the importance of walking in their lives and at its social, political, artistic, and poetic implications. By way of the art of the protocol, Godinho examined with the students the creative relationship between the artist and society, and the attitudes that may be adopted today in view of inhabiting our world differently.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1978 in Salvaterra de Magos in Portugal, Marco Godinho splits his life between Paris and Luxembourg. In a conceptualist vein, he is interested in subjective perception of time and space by examining the notions of wandering, exile, experience, memory, and lived time. Between 2000 and 2005 he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art in Nancy (France), the École Cantonale d’Arts in Lausanne (Switzerland), and the Kunstakademie and Fachhochschule in Düsseldorf (Germany). In 2005–6, he completed post-graduate work at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy.